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CVE-2017-9430
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-06-05T11:29:00.183 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:28:05.223

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in dnstracer through 1.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a command line with a long name argument that is mishandled in a strcpy call for argv[0]. An example threat model is a web application that launches dnstracer with an untrusted name string.

Affected products

dnstracer_project — dnstracer

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References

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